With great virtualisation comes great responsibility!

Does Vmware have Microsoft Vista properties? You know, we’ll just chuck it in at the end and pray it works.

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§303 · October 28, 2009 · VMWare · 3 comments · Tags: , ,


Templates and their usage are one of the big time savers in ESX. The ability to setup a “perfect” vritual machine and then deploy multiple copies of it allows us to minimise the risk of deployment errors. However, there are a few limits around what can be achieved.

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§300 · September 28, 2009 · VMWare · 1 comment · Tags: , ,


Whilst researching some storage options for a client, I stumbled across this pretty useful information

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§290 · August 25, 2009 · VMWare · 1 comment · Tags: , ,


Vmware Convertor allows us to P2V (Physical to Virtual) migrations. That is, taking (potentially) a running machine on my network and importing it directly into my virtual infrastructure.

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§276 · May 25, 2009 · VMWare · (No comments) · Tags: ,


Vmware’s launch of their new operating system, vSphere (Vmware ESX 4!), is being lauded as the first “cloud operating system”.

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§260 · April 22, 2009 · VMWare · (No comments) · Tags: ,


Greetings, faithful reader,
This one is as much a reminder for me as it is one to you!

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§255 · April 3, 2009 · Tutorials, VMWare · (No comments) · Tags: , ,


This one is getting filed under “Try it really soon!” However, randomly answering an email, I came across this document on http://www.vminfo.nl detailing the process for making a bootable USB key with ESX 3i installed.

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§243 · March 11, 2009 · Tutorials, VMWare · 2 comments · Tags: ,


Should I always upgrade my ESX implementation as soon a a new service pack is released? Obviously, after the disaster that was Update 2, the answer is hell no!!
But here’s another reason to be careful about applying updates without considering your environment.

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§240 · March 5, 2009 · VMWare · (No comments) · Tags: ,


Welcome to Vi-Pedia, the Virtualization Open Wiki. The purpose for this wiki is to gather information on all virtualization technologies in one place. This is a community driven project and anyone can therfore update the wiki.

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§237 · February 19, 2009 · VMWare · (No comments) · Tags: , ,


The eternal arguement is, “Which is the better option; Original Virtual machines, compact templates or OVF?” Certainly each has it’s own advantages and disadvantages. The one consideration, immeadiately is size.

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§228 · February 9, 2009 · VMWare · 2 comments · Tags: , ,